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To: Frank Sheed; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; ...
Many writers who claim to be Catholic make names for themselves by attacking truths basic to our faith. Without the personal integrity that would bring them to admit they have simply lost the faith that comes to us from the Apostles, they reconstruct it on a purely subjective, individualistic basis and call it renewal.


How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true.

Pro-Eligendo - HOMILY OF HIS EMINENCE CARD. JOSEPH RATZINGER DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS
18 April 2005
22 posted on 01/27/2007 11:14:33 PM PST by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: NYer

See the story linked to #25, NYer. Barbara Kralis is asking us to write to Monsignor Georg Gaenswein who is the Pope's Secretary. She gives the address and also indicates why the Pope may actually see the enclosed letter. You want to let the Holy Father know what is going on "at the front?" Here is our chance. Let's ask him chiefly to uncouple the old "Gimme" game of an outgoing Bishop having input on who the new Bishop will be. This is what has happened in many locales...with disastrous results.


26 posted on 01/28/2007 9:56:04 AM PST by Frank Sheed ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." --G.K. Chesterton)
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